1. Spring has dawned over the winter pastures
While you lie dead on this shore

2. Traversing thousands of miles in an instant
This youth crosses streams like a gadfly

3. Love and loyalty impelled you
Breaking through many barriers

4. Wherever you traveled or settled
Companies speak of taboos and ideals

5. Reveling in the freshness of youth
And its optimistic discourse

6. Minds flourish in its etiquette
As if intoxicated by its charms

7. What has befallen you, jewel of a gathering
Hope of loved ones and zephyr of Babel

8. Until you settled into death though long
You used to scoff at the jester, death

9. You were the chaste athlete, arguing
Yet fell to the enormous treacherous blow

10. You were the intellectual and man of letters
A gift of arts to a nation and its councils

11. And now hot tears cannot suffice
To explain the terrible unexpected calamity

12. Nor can religions in their exegeses
Answer the injustice of errant fate

13. Or the exchanged condolences of mourners
To alleviate the horror of the shocked bereaved

14. Death came from life and before it
Existence came from pervasive oblivion

15. There are scenes to confuse minds though perhaps
The foolish may suffice over the wise

16. Such is the life of a gambler
And truth is the ghastliest falsehood

17. Again and again I lost my philosophy, disgraced
And stifled my consolation before the killer

18. If the glory of perfection is its ruin
Then we are fools to live the perfect life

19. And we see rabble prospering
And talents fallen to the lowest base

20. And we see the wise and judicious in the dust
And we see riffraff occupying the highest stations

21. O you whom I counted the heart of my being
And from whom I drew my merits

22. Why should I now elegy you
When your wedding approaches?

23. We were happily preparing its drink
But caprice has poisoned the ruined youth

24. If this is the justice of a free world
Then miserable is the reward of the just judge